| Pandemic Waivers Made It Easier to Get Treatment for Opioid Addiction. That Could All Go Away Next Month. | PROTOCOL (09/21) – [...] The federal public health emergency declaration that gave rise to these changes is set to expire in late October. Barring an extension, the telehealth waivers could expire along with it. Read more
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| Trump Said Solving the Opioid Crisis Was a Top Priority. His Drug Office’s Track Record Suggests Otherwise. | | THE WASHINGTON POST (10/03) – President Trump on Thursday expressed his deep support for Americans facing drug addiction in a proclamation of National Substance Abuse Prevention Month and renewed his administration’s “unyielding commitment to breaking the grip of alcohol and drug addiction.” Read more |
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| Addiction and COVID-19: Specialized Treatment Matters | | FUTURE OF PERSONAL HEALTH (09/15) – Although the pandemic on everyone’s mind is COVID-19, this country is also in the midst of an addiction pandemic. Both are destructive, affect entire communities, and claim lives. Both have unintended and often misunderstood symptoms and side effects, and both can cause lasting harm. Read more |
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| Popular Anti-Anxiety Medications May Be Highly Addictive, FDA Says. But Is the Warning Too Late? | | ABC NEWS (10/07) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said last month it will now require makers of benzodiazepines to outline the risks of abuse, addiction, physical dependence and withdrawal on the drugs' labels. Read more |
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| Pandemic-Related Concerns Associated With Substance Use | MEDICAL NEWS TODAY (10/06) – A study of 160 people in the United States finds associations between worries around COVID-19 and substance use. The authors warn that the pandemic may increase the risk of substance abuse in some people and advocate for specific interventions to protect mental health. Read more
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| Virtual Reality Trains Public to Reverse Opioid Overdoses | | PENN TODAY (09/29) – The United States has seen a 200% increase in the rate of deaths by opioid overdose in the last 20 years. But many of these deaths were preventable. Read more |
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| Cannabis Use Appears to Encourage, Not Replace, Non-Medical Opioid Use | | EUREKALERT! (10/08) – Contrary to some claims, people in the U.S may not be substituting cannabis for opioids, according to new research at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Read more |
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| Alcohol Consumption Rises Sharply During Pandemic Shutdown | | EUREKALERT! (09/29) – American adults have sharply increased their consumption of alcohol during the shutdown triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, with women increasing their heavy drinking episodes (four or more drinks within a couple of hours) by 41%, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Read more |
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| Vaping, Marijuana Use in 2019 Rose in College-Age Adults | | NIDA NEWS (09/15) – Vaping marijuana and vaping nicotine rose sharply in the past three years among college-age (19-22 years old) adults, according to 2019 survey results from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study. Read more |
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| SJC Expands Insanity Defense to Include Substance Use | | WBUR (10/07) – The state's highest court unanimously vacated the murder conviction of a man who killed a fellow patient while in a psychiatric ward, saying the jury should have been given clearer instructions about the insanity defense and substance use. Read more |
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| Addicted to Losing: How Casino-Like Apps Have Drained People of Millions | | NBC NEWS (09/14) – [...] A 42-year-old Pennsylvania woman said she felt saddened that she spent $40,000 on Big Fish Casino while working as an addiction counselor. "The whole time I was working as an addiction counselor, I was addicted to gambling and with no hope of winning any money back," she said. Read more |
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| Scientists Find a Troubling Link Between Binge Drinking and Brain Dysfunction | | INVERSE (09/23) – [...] They found that 10 days of binge drinking — the equivalent of five drinks daily for the average adult — spurred immune cells in mice brains to destroy connections between neurons, leading to anxiety and other cognitive issues. Read more |
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| New Technologies Link Treatments to the Patients Who Need Them the Most | | MEDICAL XPRESS (09/30) – Many of South Carolina's nicotine addiction researchers are in Charleston. But many of the smokers who need to quit live elsewhere in the state. This poses a dilemma for researchers and smokers alike. Read more |
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| Mens' Sex Drive May Rise and Fall Due to One Brain Enzyme | | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY (09/11) – For the first time, researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine have identified how a single gene called aromatase (CYP19A1) triggers a chain reaction in the brain that converts testosterone into estrogen and seems to drive sexual desire in male mice. Read more |
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| Cocaine Addiction: Impact of Genetic Mutations Elucidated | | INSTITUT PASTEUR (09/21) – [...] Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, Inserm and the Paris Public Hospital Network (AP-HP) recently demonstrated that two gene mutations involved in the conformation of nicotinic receptors in the brain appear to play a role in various aspects of cocaine addiction. Read more |
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